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In the last two weeks (barring the Godzilla movies):

James Cameron's Avatar: It's amazing just how much my opinion has changed on this one. I loved it when I saw it in theaters, in 3D. Now I see it as forgettable and ridiculously overrated.

Zombieland/The Hangover: Hands down, my favorite comedies at the moment. Truly hilarious stuff.

Alien/Aliens: Both are excellent movies and have really set the standard on sci-fi/horror movies. The third, fourth, and AvP movies are lackluster, but these two are true masterpieces. The first is superior, but I actually prefer Cameron's movie.

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Saw The Road over the weekend. It was good, but it was almost... identical to the book. So much to the point that I was somewhat bored. The book handled some parts better, particularly the "basement" scene. Overall, though, well-done movie that really conveyed the bleak story of McCarthy's novel. Not as good an adaptation as No Country for Old Men, but still commendable.

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The Pit And the Pendulum (1991)- I love Stuart Gordon, but this wasn't all that impressive for me. Its got a great cast (Lance Henrikson, Jeffery Combs, Stuart Gordon, Tom Towles, Oliver Reed) but it was obviously hurt from the budget. Gordon's Dagon had the same problems, but was able to be good enough that it rose above those shortcomings. I think the fact that this is a period piece made it seem a lot cheaper and made for TV. There are some great parts in it though, and Henrikson is great. Probably the best film to ever come out of Full Moon Entertainment.

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace- I don't know why I'm doing this to myself, but I'm revisiting the prequels. I figure after the initial backlash and hatred they got, I might be able to come at them and appreciate them with a fresh outlook... I was wrong. Lucas made a movie about taxes and trade federations (and other boring stuff out of your high school history book) and tried to turn it into a kids movie. Its every bit as bad as that description. This movie is still god awful. The CGI is terrible, Jar Jar is the worst thing ever, young Anakin is just as bad... the creature designs even suck! Lucas got so carried away with CGI that everything looks like a cartoon and none of these creatures even LOOK like Star Wars characters. And the Yoda puppet is downright embarrassing. I don't know if they wanted to make him look younger (as if 20 years younger would really show on a being who is like 500), but he's cross eyed and plasticy and just GOOFY looking here. How a puppet from like 20 years before looks WAY better is beyond me. But I watched it with some friends and we just made fun of it like we would Troll 2 or something. An awful movie, but it was a lot of fun to make fun of it. And that WAY overlong, boring pod race is probably the worst thing..... ever.... Still, the lightsaber fight with Darth Maul and the score by John Williams are fantastic, so not all is lost.

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones- GOOD GOD. What the hell was this? I didn't remember it being THIS BAD! Whether its a better movie than Episode 1 is debatable, but its certainly WAAAAAAY more boring. Episodes I and II are both awful, but different kinds of awful. Episode 1 is so bad its funny, but Episode 2 is just a downright bore. More awful CGI (what's with those big butt creatures in the field), even worse dialogue, the most awkward romance to ever be in a big movie, and Obi-Wan walking into an intergalactic 50s diner and talking to some fat, greasy cook who looks like he came out of a sci fi Seinfeld episode... my brain is still recovering. You really can say that NOTHING happens in this movie (and certainly not anything that deserves having a 2 and a half hour film dedicated to it). Its mostly Obi-Wan boringly following people we know nothing about and the worst movie romance of all time.... with a few monsters thrown in towards the end to give it SOME action and make Lucas tons of money in merchandising. This one doesn't even have a cool lightsaber fight in it and great actors like Christopher Lee and Samuel L. Jackson are totally wasted. And why does Yoda walk with a cane like a cripple one second and do backflips and stuff the next? Ugh.

The problem with these isn't just the shoddy writing, lazy storytelling, CGI overdose, or bad acting. Its the fact that Lucas spent so much time trying to connect EVERY character to the old series that he forgot to tell the actual story. There's no reason for C-3P0, Chewie, etc. to be in the prequels. If he just focused on Anakin and his descent into madness, we'd all be fine. Instead we get awful, lazy connections to the OT and things like 50 minute pod races that only existed to sell more toys.

Onto Episode III...

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Mouth,my wife had never seen the prequels,so we just watched I last month and II a week or so ago. Jesus Christ is Phantom Menace terrible.
For those of you who haven't seen it in awhile,Jar Jar actually says "How rude!" like Stephanie from Full House.
I remembered LOVING part 2 when it came out,but seriously the last 45 minutes is just nonstop nonsense.
I have to say I'm having a lot of fun watching them and cracking up,especially since I can see her face whenever something stupid happens,which is every scene.

I really like the Star Wars cartoon,though.


Conan the Barbearian-
I had never seen this before,and all I can say is WTF. One one hand,it was pretty stupid,but on the other hand Conan bit a seagull to death so it wasn't all bad.

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Army of Darkness

This was a midnight screening at a local sci-fi center. I don't think I need to tell anyone here how great this movie is. I haven't seen it in over a decade, and I'm more educated in Japanese sci-fi now than I was back then, so I really enjoyed the "Manster" nod.

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